Geography

Resources by Topic

Dictionary of Geography (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.): Provides coverage of the terms used in both human and physical geography. Includes over 6,300 definitions across the following fields: cartography, surveying, remote sensing, statistics, meteorology, climatology, biogeography, and ecology.
Geography Books in CU Collection (): Generates a list of books about geography in the CU collection.
Online encyclopedias, dictionaries and gazetteers (Credo) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.): Online geography reference books.

Atlas & Map Journals - CU's Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): CU's collection of full text journals covering the topics of atlases and maps.
Academic Search Complete (EbscoHost) ( For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Full-text database that covers many academic disciplines. (Title List)
General Geography Journals - CU's Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): CU's collection of full text journals covering the topic of geography.
Physical Geography Journals - CU's Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): CU's collection of full text journals covering the topic of physical geography.

American Ethnic Geography (http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/geo/courses/geo200/HomePage.html ): this collection ofmaps illustrates how ethnic groups, religions and denominations, languages, political participation and beliefs, and socio-economic status are distributed across the US.
Atlas of the United States (http://www.nationalatlas.gov/): Interactive map builder with options for geological, enivronmental and more layers.
CU Atlases (): The library's map and atlas collection is located near the reference desk.
Digital Map Collection (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html): Maps from 1500 - present. Maintained by the Library of Congress.
Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/): U.S. maps, driving directions, local topic searches and satellite imagery.
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html): A wide range of topical, historic, city, world maps and links to map sites.
Oregon Coastal Atlas (http://www.coastalatlas.net/): Provides background information for different coastal systems, access to interactive mapping, online geospatial analysis tools, and direct download access to various planning and natural resource data sets relating to coastal zone management.

Background Notes - U.S. State Department (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/): Factual information about the cultural, political and demographic backgrounds of countries.
CIA World Factbook (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/): Country profiles, including demographic information, and reference maps.
Country Handbooks (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html): Electronic versions of books published by the U.S. Army between 1986 and 1998.
LexisNexis Country Profiles (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.): Detailed country profiles from the CIA World Fact Book and Walden Country Reports. Click Country and Region Reports to access.
Portals to the World (http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html): Links to country-by-country information. Maintained by the Library of Congress.

Geology (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=27)
History (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=20)
Political Science (http://www.cu-portland.edu/library/subject_guides/topic_guide.cfm?TopicID=24)